Jill Abramson on 'turbulence at the Times'

“I cried,” Abramson tells me. “I should say it went right off me, but I’m just being honest. I did cry. But by the next morning, I wasn’t completely preoccupied by it anymore. I had my cry and that was that. And [Times Co. chairman] Arthur Sulzberger came down and was very supportive. He basically said, ‘It goes with the territory. Don’t let it get to you.’” The publisher also invoked what he calls the Second Law of Journalism: “It’s not your fault. It’s just your turn.”